When relationships fail it is usually because someone chooses not to show up for the battle.

Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie.

If you never learned to hold onto someone, how could it possibly hurt now to let them go?

Sometimes you can’t figure out the truth because you’re asking people that are emotionally or socially invested in you to be brutally honest. Often family or friends will tell you what you want to hear, or what they want to believe because of their emotional investment in the situation. Instead of circling the drain with...

March 12Dear Stargirl, Hey, you’re a big girl now. Stop being such a baby. You think you’re the only one who’s ever lost a boyfriend? Boyfriends are a dime a dozen. You want to talk loss, look at all the loss around you. How about the man in the red and yellow plaid scarf? He...

Are you her boyfriend?”…No, I’m her fiancé.” Nate said.We’ve been promised to each other since birth,” Summer added.Our wedding isn’t until March.

You might think that a boy is just your friend, but then if you find out that maybe he likes you (in a boyfriend way), everything changes instantly. (47)

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, “What was it that you wanted and why didn’t you fight for it?

I love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you’re stupid. I think you’re a loser. I think you’re wonderful. I want to be with you. I don’t want to be with you. I would never date you. I hate you. I love you…..I think the madness...

Betrayal is an ironic thing. He or she betrays you then you betray yourself. You think you’re showing strength with your anger, but in reality you’re showing how much you still care.

this one’s more like one of those self-assembly Swedish wardrobes.

If Levi were a dog, he’d be a golden retriever. If he were a game, he’d be a Ping-Pong, incessant and bouncing and light.

Yes, boys are a little like shoes. Why? Well…They can be useful. But mainly…They are nice to look at. Getting the right one can be a lovely accessory to an outfit. There are times when you couldn’t do without them. And there are times when you’d rather do without them. Get the wrong ones and...

Free will? Either you follow the word of God, or you’ll be punished with eternal hellfire. That’s the same kind of “choice” an abuse boyfriend gives you: ‘Either you do exactly what I say, or I’ll beat the shit out of you.

He’s really jealous, Ybon said rather weakly. Just have him meet me, Oscar said. I make all boyfriends feel better about themselves.

You don’t have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire.

When words don’t add up in love, it is because of six possible reasons: 1. They are afraid to tell you the truth because you will leave them. 2. They enjoy being a liar or playing people because of ego reasons and/or control. 3. They don’t know the truth themselves. 4. They are undecided. 5....

Words don’t have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess.

Treat your heart like a turnstile. Open it to only those who got valid tickets.

They mean hot like ‘I’m too good for you I got my own money don’t be frontin’ me.’ You’re more like ‘Be my boyfriend I’ll make you cookies come meet my dad ‘ know what I mean

The movies make the brooding guy the hero – the guy with problems the guy who carries a gun, the gun with unresolved anger, the guy with a chip on his shoulder, the guy who’s a vampire – and they tell you that you can have the mythical happy ending with that same brooding guy....

Saying you’re through with romance is like saying you’re done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.

Caddy came home on Friday evening. Perfectly Harmless Patrick brought her in his battered old car…”Crikey, Caddy!” said Indigo, and he disappeared upstairs to tell Rose.Eve murmured, “Sweet,” rather doubtfully.Sarah said, not doubtfully at all, “Horrendous! The worst yet. Rock bottom.””He had a very difficult childhood,” said Caddy….”Who didn’t?” asked Saffron unsympathetically. “Gosh, he’s ancient,...

In my opinion, all boyfriends should turn out to be secretly wealthy.

Oh, you know. Jace reminds me of an old boyfriend. Some guys look at you like they want sex. Jace looks at you like you’ve already had sex, it was great, and now you’re just friends–even though you want more. Drives girls crazy. You know what I mean?” Yes, Clary thought. “No,” she said.pg. 280

You will never find the real truth among people that are insecure or have egos to protect. Truth over time becomes either guarded or twisted as their perspective changes; it changes with the seasons of their shame, love, hope or pride.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise.

The best boyfriends are the ones in books.

Something, somewhere, somehow went wrong. Someone, somewhere, somehow will be cursing me. Sometimes curse cures.

Tears are the biggest weapon used by every girl against the boys with a success rate of hundred percent.

If you have to convince someone to stay with you, then they have already left.

The most important quality in the man you decide to marry should be the ability to make you laugh. Beauty fades, careers end, money comes and goes, religions change, children grow up and move away, spouses get sick, struggles happen, family members die, senility sets in when your older, but the ability to make you...

WILL YOU BE BRINGING A DATE?””PROBABLY NOT.””OH COME ON,” Dora said. “I’M SURE THAT YOU MUST HAVE LOTS OF BOYFRIENDS– AND GIRLFRIENDS…”I nod my head no and explain that my sex life is complicated.”HOW SO?” Tommy asked.”MY BOYFRIEND’S STRAIGHT.””OH. WOW,” Dora said. “MINE TOO.” We laugh.

I can cross the boundless ocean just to save you, I cannot eat or sleep without you, I can take you on a journey to heaven and show you to the angels. All these are fake and absurd promises; Be sincere, walk up to your lover and say, honestly, darling, i can only do the...

I don’t think much about guys from the past. I’m glad I knew them, but there’s a reason they didn’t make it into my future.

No, you’re confusing fairy god- mothers with sales clerks.